A MICRO-BREWERY toasted its success after one of its beers was named top tipple in a prestigious Merseyside contest.

A MICRO-BREWERY toasted its success after one of its beers was named top tipple in a prestigious Merseyside contest.

Birkenhead-based Peerless Brewing Company’s cask-conditioned lager Storr was named best beer in a challenge for the region’s nine real ale brewers at the Camra (Campaign for Real Ale) Liverpool Beer Festival.

With beers judged by 70 laymen, Storr took the title well ahead of the closest runner-ups by several points.

Storr is a pale, “hoppy” beer and its name derives from the Old Norse word for great or strong.

Peerless head brewer and managing director Steve Briscoe said: “For our cask lager to win was wonderful. It shows Storr is a lager with real taste. It is produced in the true tradition of lager brewing and proves lager, if brewed properly, can be just as rewarding a tipple as traditional cask ales.”

Storr’s popularity with ale drinkers has grown rapidly since the Pool Street brewery opened in 2010.